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Nausea and GI comfort coach for the first weeks

The first few weeks are when nausea peaks and when most starters quietly quit — so the agent gets ahead of it with comfort tips and the one reassurance that keeps them going: this usually fades.

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What it does

Nausea hits a large share of GLP-1 starters and is worst in the opening weeks, which is exactly the stretch where new patients give up before the medication has had a fair chance. Left alone, the queasiness reads as "this isn't for me," and a costly-to-acquire patient is gone in week two. The agent treats the onset window as its own moment: on a logged or reported nausea it delivers protocol-safe diet, hydration, and meal-timing comfort tips, sets the honest expectation that this typically eases over the first weeks, and keeps watch for the severe or dehydrating cases that need a clinician. It coaches comfort and sets expectations — it never prescribes an anti-nausea medication.

How it works

  1. 1
    Trigger. a reported or logged nausea symptom in the early titration window, or the program reaching the first weeks after a first dose where onset nausea is most likely.
  2. 2
    Decision. the agent reads the patient's stage and severity, separates ordinary onset nausea from red flags (severe, persistent, or signs of dehydration), and selects the comfort path or the escalation path against the program's clinical policy.
  3. 3
    Action. for ordinary onset it sends grounded comfort guidance — bland foods, hydration, eating earlier, smaller portions — paired with the "this usually fades" reframe, on chat, push, or WhatsApp.
  4. 4
    Follow-through. it checks back over the following days to see whether the nausea is settling, writes the trend to memory, and routes to a clinician the moment severity or dehydration crosses the line.
Example
AgentYou logged some nausea after this week's dose — that's most common right around now and for most people it eases over the coming weeks. A few things that tend to help: smaller, blander meals, sipping water through the day, and not eating right before bed. Want me to check in tomorrow to see how you're feeling?
PatientYeah please. It's been three days though and I haven't kept much down.
AgentThree days of not keeping food or fluids down is past the comfort-tips stage — I'd like your care team to take a look rather than me guessing here. I'll pass on what you've logged and they'll be in touch; keep sipping water in the meantime.

Configuration

How the agent is wired for this use case.

Triggera logged or reported nausea symptom in the early titration window, or a time signal marking the first weeks after a first dose
Tools & actions
  • App backend · read symptom logs, first-dose date, and titration stage to detect the onset window
  • Knowledge base · retrieve protocol-safe diet, hydration, and meal-timing comfort guidance
  • Messaging channel · send the comfort tips and the "usually fades" reframe, run the follow-up check-in
  • Memory store · record the nausea trend across days and whether it is settling
  • Clinical system · route severe, persistent, or dehydration-flagged cases to a clinician
Autonomycomfort coaching, expectation-setting, and the follow-up check-in run unattended behind a judge for tone and safety; the agent gives no dose advice and prescribes no anti-nausea medication, and a severe or dehydration signal forces a clinician handoff under the clinical-safety policy
Channelschat · push · whatsapp
Escalationsevere, persistent, or dehydration-suggestive nausea hands off to a clinician with the logged symptom trend

What you need

The inputs this use case runs on. Your channels stay yours; the agent supplies the judgment.

Signals

nausea logs and reports, first-dose date and titration-stage events, follow-up engagement

Data

medication stage, symptom history across the onset window, comfort-content library, notification consent

Guardrails

clinical-safety policy; no dose advice and no anti-nausea prescribing in any automated reply; judge review on every unprompted message; dehydration and severity thresholds force escalation; frequency caps so check-ins support rather than pester

Metrics it moves

  • adherenceup, by carrying starters through the peak-nausea window instead of losing them to it
  • churndown, defending the single biggest early drop-off moment in the program
  • ticket-deflectionup, as routine onset nausea is met with grounded comfort rather than a clinician's time
  • csatup, since the honest "this usually fades" reframe lands at the moment of worry

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